Spartan Java

It’s really annoying to run something interactively on MS Windows when you know deep inside it should be an OS Service. Doing this on a *nix system is quite simple (most of the times you just need to write a short shell script), but on MS Windows it’s not so easy.

Anyway, after looking into a few solutions for my problem I run into the Java Service Wrapper, which is sort of a helper application that allows you to run virtually any Java (standalone) program as a MS Windows service (amongst a number of other features).

I managed to get an existing standalone console based batch process running as a service in just a few minutes so I can say it’s also quite easy to learn. If you have the source code of the app you want to wrap, I recommend you use “Method 3“, it’s really simple and it feels more natural than the others proposed by the wrapper creators.